So I just finished reading Moby Dick today. I went on line to see which was the movie version I'd seen ages ago where they stole one character's death and handed it to another character. I just found out, not only is there going to be a miniseries this fall but Timur Bekmambetov is working on a feature film! Holy boy- I can't wait to see this story through his eyes.
uh-oh now I'm scared...
Ahab will be depicted more as a charismatic leader than a brooding obsessive.
“Our vision isn’t your grandfather’s ‘Moby Dick,’ ” Cooper said. “This is an opportunity to take a timeless classic and capitalize on the advances in visual effects to tell what at its core is an action-adventure revenge story.”
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amyth got the Inception shooting script from Amazon yesterday. I can't wait to read it.
Inception graphics I like:
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minimalist poster: [link]
favorite macro: [link]
Close second: [link]
Ooh, I would frame that minimalist poster. That's gorgeous.
Michael Phillips of the Tribune uses the release of Step Up 3D to take a look at 3D musicals, dating back to the '50s.
The artist was selling prints, but last I looked they're gone. Probably got a C&D.
And now something NOT Inception-related!
Xposting here and Other Media: Casting sides come out for
Runaways
movie. Show early signs of fail. [link]
Opinion please. Would the use of the word "cheesy" offend Escape from New York fans in the following?
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I think that x can best be understood through analogy to a cheesy 1981 John Carpenter film.
Escape from New York was set in a future New York City (in distant 1988!) which had been turned into a giant maximum security prison. Reactions to its cartoon violence, cynicism, B-movie sensibility and badly concealed idealism vary from love to hate to mockery.
I don't know if John Carpenter's films are considered cheesy.
Yes he did genre movies and some b-movies, but he's most often been compared to Howard Hawks as a guy who mastered many genres and did it exceedingly well.
I mean, hell, Wm. Gibson cites
Escape From New York
as one of his influences on
Neuromancer.
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